Idiotic, I guess they are trying this way to compensate for the losses they had during the hack.

I did not aware of hack on Poloniex recently?

The last hack happened earlier this month, in which the hacker successfully moved about $3 million+ from the exchange. Read more about it here: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/05/07/poloniex-hacker-sends-33m-worth-of-ether-to-tornado-cash/amp/

According to the news, it was the same group of hackers that stole $125 million from them last November, and they are yet to recover from that hack.